( 1844 ) 



Berckheya grandiflora. Large-flowered 

 Berckheya. 



C/ass awe? Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea. 



Generic Character. 



Receptaculum favosum. Semina villosa. Pappus paleaceus 

 (nunc setoso-paleaceus ciliatus). Cal. imbricatus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Berckheya grandiflora ; foliis oppositis lanceolatis trinerviis 



spinoso-dentatis subtus tomentosis, calycinis foliolis 



spinoso-dentatis. fVilld. Sp. PL 3. p. 2271. 

 Berckheya fruticosa. Wendl. Obs. 33. t. 4/ 31. 

 Rohria grandiflora; foliis calycibusque oblongis dentato- 



spinosis subtus tomentosis capitulo solitario. Thunb. 



Prodr. 140. Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Hafn. 3. p. 107. 

 Rohria ilicifolia ; foliis oppositis oblongis dentatis spinosis 



supra lineatis, caule fruticoso. Vahl Act. Soc. Nat. 



Scrut. Hafn. 2. p. 40. t. 7. 

 Gorteria fruticosa. Berg. Cap. p. 302. quoad descriptionem, 



exclusis synonymis omnibus, excepto forte Plukenetii. 

 Atractylis oppositifolia ; foliis oppositis. L. Mant. 477. 



Reich. Sp. PL 3. p. 697. exclusis synon. Sp. Plan*. et 



Plukenetii. 

 Carthamus africanus, frutescens, folio ilicis spinoso, flore 



aureo. Walth. Hoft. 13. t. 7. 



Descr. Stem shrubby, about three feet high, divided 

 mto a few upright branches. Leaves opposite, ternate, or, 

 sometimes scattered, oblong, smooth on the upper surface and 

 cottony on the under, sinuate-dentate: teeth terminated each 



with 



